Pictures Of Record Stores!

funny to me that they have never heard the phrase john doe. They're ostensibly a newspaper!

This is Jerry's records in Pittsburgh
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let me try that again
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a few more favorites in baltimore
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Didn't know this thread existed--I think I may have linked to this on another thread a year or two ago, photos I took of where some well-known Toronto record stores used to be located, plus where a couple still are.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/records-stores.html

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ My only recollection of visiting Toronto as a child one night was a record store with this huge three-story-tall glowing neon record above the entry doors, but I couldn't remember the name. Glad to see Sam The Record Man is still around....

Err... I have some not good news for Does anyone have pictures of extinct toronto record stores, of any variety. Totally get off on those (mournful nostalgia for something I never experienced - though I did get some stuff at the queen and portland cd cat when I was 8)

I took those picture seven or eight years ago--Sam's closed down in 2007. (They'd declared bankruptcy in 2001 but managed to limp along for a few more years.) It was a huge story here, Toronto's equivalent of the closing of CBGB's. I wish I could link to the Goin' Down the Road segment set inside the store--it was up on YouTube for a while--but here's something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Record_Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlTVWqwuGaI&feature=related

Aah, bummer..... but it's great seeing that video. I have very few memories from that long ago, and this was one of those vague recollections that seems so unlikely i'm not sure if it really happened or was there unless i see it again. It was late night - that's the other thing I remember because I was from the US burbs where everything was closed by 9:00pm and I'd never been anywhere where the stores and restaurants were still open til late night, and I was walking on that side of the street walking into the store, too close to see what was directly above, so someone pulled me aside to step back and look up at the sign. For some reason I only remember one spinning record and it being red rather than white, but otherwise it's exactly as I recalled.

Wow, what I'd give to have brick-and-mortar store with 400,000 new vinyl wafers to choose from nowadays....

i never knew this place as anything other than an over priced tourist trap, but bye bye bleeker bob's
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/nyregion/two-new-york-musical-mainstays-are-soon-to-tune-out.html?_r=1

yeah my facebook was all atwitter about that a week or two ago. i haven't been there since the 80's. but i always bought stuff there back then. and unlike a lot of people's experiences, they were never mean to me or anything.

did they have the mean reputation back in the glory days? always assumed that was a more recent development.

bob's is the site where, in the late 1990s, i overheard the most hilarious conversation i have ever heard, between a customer and the guy working the counter. not hilarious like "listen to these bozos" more like, some kind of amazing extended marx bros. riffing. i just stood there in awe. (naturally, i didn't buy anything. did anyone buy anything at bob's?)

i bought some old punk singles there last summer. wasn't all that great but definitely a bummer that it's closing

Isn't Bleecker Bob's where Newman and Kramer take their records on that Seinfeld episode? Wish I could say I'd gotten there, although I sense it's too pricey for me.

i posted this on ilm but i should post it here too. my very first youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_0oCtgrVUI8

Blimey.

http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2014/08/movie-of-week-tower-records-1971.html

korla pandit!